COVID19

[Galfon]

Distancing appeared far from safe at this event...odd times. (Djokovic now has it too).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/53148053

[paddy no 11]

Trying to set himself up for life it his own tournie? Fairly self indulgent - serious doubts about the guy.....anti vaxxer

[morepork]

Trying to set himself up for life it his own tournie? Fairly self indulgent - serious doubts about the guy.....anti vaxxer

I had no idea he was such a twat. Looks like he has transmitted the pathogen to dozens. Great success.

[Sandydragon]

SO lockdown here is pretty much over, bar a few activities and business types which will probably get the nod next week. 2m is now 1m+.

Too soon? We'll find out shortly.

[morepork]

Waaaaay too soon.

[Digby]

It does feel like we haven't paused at any point to see how the reopening is going, we're just pushing on with the reopening

[morepork]

You guys are like Florida, without the sunshine, oranges, and gunz.

[Son of Mathonwy]

New ONS numbers up to 12 Jun are out, so as of that date we have:
Positive test UK Covid-19 deaths: 41,581
All UK Covid-19 deaths (ONS number): 53,009
So the total UK number is 27% higher than the government number.

Excess deaths compared with 5 year average to 12 Jun: 64,938
which is 56% higher than the government number.

I won't bother with extrapolating the numbers to give estimates as of today. Add 1-2k to each of the above and that won't be far off.

[Digby]

One of our bigger clients is a reasonably sized insurance company and they've started looking actuarily at some of the long term impacts from Covid19 just based on the limited knowledge we have now around some potential side effects. They're not making us privy to their thinking, and this is just them playing around perhaps with some worst case scenarios as a number of tests/projections. But feck me it's alarming

[Galfon]

Now Oz on the rebound..

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... rus-surge/

[morepork]

Cases on the rise here, particularly in the South. The Northeast is steadily dropping. NY, NJ, and CT have all imposed compulsory quarantine on any travelers from states currently on the increase. All increases are correlated with shitty, anti-science retard leadership in lock step with the head orange moron. I think it is just a matter of time until other countries ban all travel from the US for the immediate future. What other choice is there? Who would trust the US to stick to consensus standard operating procedures at ports of exit. It really is difficult to imagine a worse response to this than we are seeing in this country. I'm not going to be able to visit home for at least a year I think. That makes me sad and mad. It just didn't have to be like this. The government over the last 3 years has systematically dismantled all centralised public agencies that are designed to respond to situations like this. This was the CDCs moment, right now, and it is on it's arse, silenced, underfunded, and lacking leadership in key positions. In years past the CDC would have had people in the hot zone, wherever in the world that might be, giving expertise and resources to contain things. They did it with Ebola, SARS, and on and on. If fuckheads in the US cannot see how that helps them at home, then they are beyond any hope and should be fucking sterilised. This is just inexcusable in a wealthy industrialised nation with so such diversity of skill and talent at its disposal.

[Galfon]

Staying alert, Controlling the virus..
all at the same time in the same place unfortunately.
Copious use of UV and alcohol to help the fight, also at play.
FFS.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-heal ... istancing/

[paddy no 11]

security is in place to protect refuse crews who the council said faced "widespread abuse and intimidation" as they emptied overflowing bins

wtf is wrong with people

[Banquo]

security is in place to protect refuse crews who the council said faced "widespread abuse and intimidation" as they emptied overflowing bins

wtf is wrong with people

A question I ask myself most days at present.

[Son of Mathonwy]

security is in place to protect refuse crews who the council said faced "widespread abuse and intimidation" as they emptied overflowing bins

wtf is wrong with people

Where is this? People are pretty chilled where I am (too hot for any aggro anyway).

[paddy no 11]

Bournemouth

[Son of Mathonwy]

Bournemouth

Gonna be a ton of sunburn to go with all the Covid-19 they're soaking up.

Poor Brits, driven mad by that unfamiliar yellow light in the sky.

[Sandydragon]

security is in place to protect refuse crews who the council said faced "widespread abuse and intimidation" as they emptied overflowing bins

wtf is wrong with people

So, so depressing.

[Banquo]

security is in place to protect refuse crews who the council said faced "widespread abuse and intimidation" as they emptied overflowing bins

wtf is wrong with people

So, so depressing.

Bournemouth, Police attacked at (illegal) street parties, I just despair.

[Sandydragon]

security is in place to protect refuse crews who the council said faced "widespread abuse and intimidation" as they emptied overflowing bins

wtf is wrong with people

So, so depressing.

Bournemouth, Police attacked at (illegal) street parties, I just despair.

Weeks of being locked down coupled with ACAB messaging, not a huge surprise.

But still very depressing.

[Banquo]

So, so depressing.

Bournemouth, Police attacked at (illegal) street parties, I just despair.

Weeks of being locked down coupled with ACAB messaging, not a huge surprise.

But still very depressing.

even more depressing that not surprising.

[Mellsblue]

Bournemouth, Police attacked at (illegal) street parties, I just despair.

Weeks of being locked down coupled with ACAB messaging, not a huge surprise.

But still very depressing.

even more depressing that not surprising.

I am suprisingly depressed.

[Galfon]

Weeks of being locked down coupled with ACAB messaging, not a huge surprise.

But still very depressing.

even more depressing that not surprising.

I am suprisingly depressed.

should have been suppressed.

[Galfon]

.Meanwhile, as numbers of cases continue to slowly decline in UK, Swe finally leap-frogs us after a similar time since 1st case reported -
(7-day avge.)
Jun 26:  uk 1066, Jun 24:  Swe 1109.

Other eye-openers..
Jun 24: iraq 1778.
Jun 25 Egy 1528, Arg 2415, Iran 2493,
 SauAr 3521, Chile 4853, SA 4926, Rus 7558.

( from ft.com )

[Eugene Wrayburn]

Waaaaay too soon.

It depends on what you are trying to do. You are obviously right if your aim is to eliminate the virus as quickly as possible and save as much life as possible.

If all you're aiming to do is to avoid a spike in cases then we seem to have done a frankly impressive job of keeping R just below 1 and therefore the numbers being infected manageable. Still means rather a lot of death though. If the exercise is to have the minimum lockdown consistent with avoiding exponential virus growth they are doing a magnificent job. I just think that you ought to be frank if that's what you're doing so that you can take the electoral consequences